Pope Damasus II (Bagnario) de Curagnoni is Notable.
Bagnario or Pepone or Poppo de'Curagnoni was born at Tyrol into a noble Bavarian family.[1][2][3]
He was appointed Bishop of Brixen in Tyrol in 1040.[2] As a key advisor to King Henry III of Germany he travelled with the King to Italy for his imperial coronation in 1046.[2] It was King Henry III as patricius to the Romans, who appointed Poppo as successor to Pope Clement II on the pope's death.[2] He was enthroned on 17 July 1048 at the Lateran Basilica after which he moved to Palestrina where after a short reign of only 23 days he died on 9 August 1048 and was buried in San Lorenzo fuori le Mura.[2]
Damasus the Second, a Bavarian, surnamed Bagnario or Pepone (as some say), seized the papal chair by force, without any consent of the clergy and people. So deep root had this licentious custom taken, that any ambitious fellow durst invade the seat of St Peter. But the just God avenged himself upon this villain, that he might be an example to the rest, who should seek by ambition and simony that which ought to be the reward of virtue; for on the twenty-ninth day of his pontificate he died.
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